No support in MacPorts

Unlike the use flag in Gentoo’s Portage, there is no preg variant available for the MacPorts version of MySQL (mysql5-server). Well you probably don’t care.., until you need to run third-party queries which contain PREG_REPLACE et al. That’s when you jump on #MacPorts on Freenode and get directed to the docs on Local Portfile Repositories. But there’s that whole thing about needing a Portfile…